Abbasi - Amir Arslan Khan Afshar Type A; Tabrīz

Amir Arslan Khan Afshar governed Azerbaijan as a regional strongman during the violent fragmentation that followed Nader Shah's assassination in 1747. The Afsharid empire collapsed almost immediately after Nader's death, and local commanders across Iran seized minting rights as both a financial instrument and a declaration of autonomous authority. Tabriz, long one of the most commercially significant cities in the Iranian northwest, issued coins under several successive local rulers in rapid succession during these years — the series is complicated precisely because so few of these men held power long enough to leave a tidy numismatic record.